Northwestern University is based in Evanston, Illinois offers a fully funded PhD in Religious Studies. This is a small, highly flexible, interdisciplinary Ph.D. program that takes full advantage of faculty strength within our department as well as ancillary fields of the humanities and social sciences. Northwestern University provides all graduate students in the humanities with the same standard package of guaranteed funding. Currently, this includes the following: five academic years of tuition and stipend, five summers of study stipend, health insurance, and a U-pass for public transportation.